Rémy Julienne

Personal Info

Known For Crew

Gender Male

Birthday 1930-04-17

Deathday 2021-01-21 (90 years old)

Place of Birth Cepoy, Loiret, France

Also Known As Remi Julienne, Remy Julienne, Rémi Julienne

Rémy Julienne

Biography

Rémy Julienne (17 April 1930 – 21 January 2021) was a French driving stunt performer and coordinator, assistant director and occasional actor. He was also a rallycross champion and 1956 French motorcross champion. Julienne was born in 1930, the son of café owners in the town of Cepoy, 110 km south-east of Paris. During World War II, he was dared by children evacuated from Paris to ride a bicycle across the local canal, which inspired him to start riding motocross. In his early 20's Julienne became French motocross champion in 1957, which brought him to the attention of eminent stunt co-coordinator Gil Delamare. Through Delamare, Julienne's first screen appearance in 1964 was replacing actor Jean Marais, and in 1966 he played a German army motorcyclist in La Grande Vadrouille. After Delamare's tragic death during a stunt in 1966, Julienne stepped-in and agreed to fulfill contracts Delamare had signed with various film studios. Julienne's scientific approach which created spectacular on-screen images garnered him admiration within the industry in an age before computer modelling. Working initially in French film and TV, and occasional Hollywood films shot in Europe, his developing reputation led to his employment on the British film The Italian Job. Producer Michael Deeley later commented that “During our initial meeting with Rémy, Peter Collinson [the film’s director] and I were delighted to discover that he was prepared to take the chase sequence even further than we had envisaged, suggesting a different range of hair-raising stunts that could be written into the script.” Julienne planned and co-ordinated all of the vehicle sequences, including the epic Mini chase sequence through the streets and roof tops of Turin. "Very often people ask, ‘what was my favourite stunt?’ I’d say the jump between the two Fiat factory roofs must be the one, because it was emotional, because it was difficult. We worked on the ground, we prepared the ramps, calculated distances, speeds etc. [Originally] it was decided I had to do three separate jumps in each Mini. I explained that, as the roof was very wide, we could make the three Minis jump all together… it looked much better as a shot. It was more complicated, but really amazing." He resultantly became Hollywood's go-to vehicle stunt coordinator, best publicly known for his stunts on six James Bond films, five of which were directed by John Glen. Julienne became known for Bond sequences which made ordinary cars do extraordinary things, such as the Citroen 2CV in For Your Eyes Only, the Renault 11 in A View to a Kill, and the petrol semi-tanker in Licence to Kill in which a Kenworth performed a wheelie. "The tanker chase was the most dangerous sequence I ever devised” said Glen, who also noted that Julienne was fastidious in his preparation. ... Source: Article "Rémy Julienne" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known For

Crew

2006
The Da Vinci Code

as Stunt Coordinator

1996
The Eighth Day

as Stunts

1996
Maximum Risk

as Stunt Coordinator

1995
GoldenEye

as Stunt Driver

1995
Stories from the Kronen

as Stunt Driver

1993
The Blonde

as Stunt Coordinator

1993
1991
Walking a Tightrope

as Stunt Driver

1990
The Fatal Image

as Stunts

1988
Frantic

as Stunt Driver

1988
1987
Man on Fire

as Special Effects

1987
Easy Money

as Stunt Coordinator

1985
Hold-up

as Stunt Coordinator

1985
Joan Lui

as Stunt Coordinator

1985
A View to a Kill

as Stunt Coordinator

1984
Sheena

as Stunts

1983
The Hawk

as Stunts

1983
The Outsider

as Stunt Coordinator

1983
The Outsider

as Stunt Driver

1981
Condorman

as Stunt Coordinator

1980
Fantozzi Against the Wind

as Stunt Coordinator

1980
Speed Cross

as Stunts

1980
1980
Three Men to Destroy

as Stunt Coordinator

1980
The Latest Scams of El Torete

as Stunt Coordinator

1979
Cop or Hood

as Stunt Coordinator

1979
The Police War

as Stunt Coordinator

1979
Démons de midi

as Stunts

1979
I'm for the Hippopotamus

as Stunt Coordinator

1979
Street Warriors II

as Stunt Coordinator

1978
State Reasons

as Stunts

1978
Out of It

as Stunt Coordinator

1977
Highway Racer

as Stunt Coordinator

1977
Street Warriors

as Stunt Coordinator

1976
The Wing or the Thigh?

as Stunt Coordinator

1975
Blonde in Black Leather

as Stunt Coordinator

1975
The Night Caller

as Stunt Driver

1974
The Slap

as Stunts

1974
S*P*Y*S

as Stunt Coordinator

1974
Watch Out, We're Mad

as Stunt Driver

1974
Littlefoot the Policeman

as Stunt Driver

1974
S*P*Y*S

as Stunt Driver

1974
Shoot First, Die Later

as Stunt Coordinator

1973
The Big Store

as Stunt Double

1973
The Insolent

as Stunt Coordinator

1973
Happy New Year

as Stunts

1973
Barcelona Kill

as Stunt Coordinator

1971
Perched on a Tree

as Stunt Coordinator

1971
The Burglars

as Stunt Coordinator

1970
Violent City

as Stunt Driver

1970
Atlantic Wall

as Stunt Driver

1967
Operation San Pietro

as Special Effects

1964
Fantomas

as Stunts

Actor

1996
The Eighth Day

as Lorry driver

1984
Happy Easter

as Le co-pilote (uncredited)

1976
Dracula and Son

as cascades

1974
Watch Out, We're Mad

as Matón motorista (uncredited)

1973
Happy New Year

as Taxi Driver (uncredited)

1972
The Big Shots

as Jérémy

1966
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!

as Biker Receiving Pumpkin (uncredited)

Director

1988